Did he really say that?

The kind of humor I like is the thing that makes me laugh for five seconds and think for ten minutes = GEORGE CARLIN...Stained glass, engraved glass, frosted glass–give me plain glass = JOHN FOWLES...Music is the mathematics of the gods = PYTHAGORAS...Nothing is more fluid than language = R.L.SWIHART

Each chair number corresponds to a photograph.
The photographs were taken by Gjon Mili at his studio during the early 1940's. Some of them would grace the pages of Life Magazine (October 11,1943). Most of them would remain invisible to the public (Gjon Mili's books notwithstanding).

To describe Gjon Mili as a jazz photographer is like describing a Rolls Royce as a nice car. To better describe a "jam session," I will end this post with an excerpt from the 1943 Life article.

A jam session is an informal gathering of temperamentally congenial jazz musicians who play unrehearsed and unscored music for their own enjoyment. It usually takes place in the early morning hours after the participants have finished their regular evening’s work with large bands…. It represents the discarding of the shackles imposed by working with a band that plays You’ll Never Know and All or Nothing at All in the same unimaginative arrangements night after night. It represents the final freedom of musical expression.

Recently such a session took place in the New York studio of LIFE photographer Gjon Mili. From shortly before 9 p.m. until after 4 a.m. some of the most distinguished talents in jazz performed for an audience which, in the smoky sweaty barn of a studio, derived an alert, fascinated, almost frenzied enjoyment from what it heard.

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Both GodFather of Math and GoodFather of Math are exactly 1002 pages. In the hands of a serious editor, each could be reduced to a 666 page modern
novel.
GoFather of Math is PART 3 but it may be more than a trilogy!

In Your Face

Father Frank 10/14/11

This Is Not W.C. Fields

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This small photo is a landmark. That WC Fields was other-worldly funny as Humpty-Dumpty is one small detail of the whole picture, a/k/a Alice in Wonderland (1933).

Amongst the luminaries of Paramount Studios' contract actors was a young girl named Charlotte Henry.

You can create a kilometer by lining up all the productions of the Lewis Carroll classic but never before or since did the "Alice" character look exactly the way Mr. Carroll and his illustrator (John Tenniel) intended.

Thankfully, Charlotte Henry had an extensive and successful career in Hollywood.